China says U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok are an abuse of state power. There's concern in Washington that Beijing could use its legal and regulatory powers to obtain private user data or to try to push misinformation.
The U.S. government “has been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies,” Mao Ning said at a daily briefing. “How unsure of itself can the U.S.
, the world’s top superpower, be to fear a favorite young person’s favorite app to such a degree?”wipe TikTok offTikTok is used by two-thirds of American teens, but there’s concern in Washington that China could use its legal and regulatory powers to obtain private user data or to try to push misinformation or narratives favoring China.Some have also moved to apply the ban to any app or website owned by ByteDance Ltd.
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